Schools honoring Confederate generals get new names as Dallas ISD pledges to strive for equity

DISD's board of trustees unanimously passed a sweeping resolution that recognized the intergenerational effects of racial and economic segregation on its students, pledging to confront inequities and "relentlessly pursue" improvements to fix them districtwide.

Trustees also unanimously approved new names for three elementary schools that honored Confederate generals: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and William L. Cabell.

A lawsuit against Academy Sports & Outdoors, filed on behalf of the Ward and Lookingbill family, alleges that the store failed to follow the law when selling a rifle to Devin Patrick Kelley, according to the San Antonio Express-News. The suit seeks $25 million in damages.

Kelley purchased a Ruger AR-566 rifle at the store in San Antonio in 2016, the lawsuit says. That gun was one of the weapons he used to kill 26 people inside First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on Nov. 5.

3,000 more JFK assassination files to be released

The 3,539 records will the last released pending a final review of records that remain sealed at the request of the CIA, FBI and a handful of other agencies who pressed the White House for more time ahead of a deadline set a quarter century earlier.

The National Archives released five batches of records earlier this year.

Previous batches of documents have revealed the deep ties between U.S. and Mexican intelligence agencies, and the lengths the United States went to in attempts to undermine or assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

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How do you make Dallas Blooms spring flower festival happen? Plant half a million bulbs in December. The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden's horticultural staff was busy planting spring-blooming bulbs throughout the garden on Thursday.

Finally,

The 60-year-old Dallas attorney and producer has a new book in hand, XX v XY: The Final World War, that he wants to pitch to networks.

"The plot is simple," says Goldstein in his cluttered office along the Dallas North Tollway. "Women get tired of men ruling them. They put up resistance that becomes revolution. This book is a slice in the epic journey."

Goldstein figures his timing is pitch perfect given the outrage over sexual misconduct coming to light in Hollywood, the government and the media.